[Bassir (Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2008 1:13PM]

All these issues on net neutrality, I'm so glad my ISP doesn't care at all about its internet branch (Time Warner's Road Runner).

We can just wait a few months for Obama to get elected and see how he deals with the net neutrality issues.

[kjb434 Posted Jul 30th 2008 1:22PM]

yeah,

If he gets elected you can expect your internet connection to come to a crawl from Net Neutrality!

What incentive does any ISP have for providing a high speed connection and upgrading it's network if it has no way of maintaining a consistent and fair bandwidth available to all users.

[Dave (Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2008 2:12PM]

Actually Time Warner does care, since they are the ones already experimenting with pay per data cable internet down in Texas...

and not that I could agree with kjb434 on anything, but the only "hope" I have when Obama gets elected is the hope I can find a job as an expat somewhere outside of the US for the next four years. That guy is so full of shit I don't know how people can take him seriously - without a prepared speech he's a zero.

[7on (Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2008 3:11PM]

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/#open-internet

[Dave (Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2008 3:39PM]

@7on

Oh yeah, I bet that part Obama's website will get deleted when he doesn't find it convenient, just like his viewpoint on the surge in Iraq that has worked:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-surge.html

You should also think about his viewpoints on the economy before you even begin to worry about net neutrality. Because let's face it, renegotiate NAFTA? Raise taxes when the economy is headed towards a recession? Are you serious? I mean, take an economics course...

[bernardino Posted Jul 30th 2008 10:04PM]

@kjb434 You act as if banning certain protocols is the only way to stop users from consuming all available bandwidth. There are other options, such as QoS which can prioritize traffic rather than outright banning it and split available bandwidth among active users.

Net Neutrality won't kill the internet, but the ISP's poor management will.